Send a photo as a puzzle.
They solve it to see it.
Pick a photo, pick the occasion, write a note only they will read. PuzzPic gives you a link. They tap it and solve the puzzle right in their browser — no app, no login, no sign-up — and your note appears the moment the last tile lands.
Free, with ads. One-off in-app purchase to remove them. Android coming soon.
Swap the tiles to put the photo back together.
“Look where we’re going in June.”
How it works
Three steps, about a minute
Making the puzzle takes the app. Solving it does not — that is the whole point of a gift link.
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Pick a photo
Anything from your library. PuzzPic slices it into a 3×3 or a 4×4 board, and a gift link plays as free swap in the browser: tap two tiles and they trade places, until the photo is back. Same game on every phone and laptop you send it to.
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Wrap it
Choose an occasion so the page arrives themed, then write a private note. The note is the payoff — it stays hidden behind the puzzle until they finish.
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Send the link
Share it however you already talk to them. They open it in any browser, on any phone or laptop, and start solving. Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for.
Occasions
The same puzzle, six different arrivals
The occasion you pick sets the wording, the emoji and the colour of the page they land on, so a proposal does not show up looking like a Tuesday.
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Reveal
For the thing you have been sitting on. They solve their way to the news.
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Proposal
“Has a question for you.” The last tile is the question.
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Save the date
A venue, a view, a hand-written date. Better than a calendar invite.
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Guess where
Somewhere you are standing right now, or somewhere you are taking them.
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Birthday
An old photo of the two of you, and something you would rather not say out loud.
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Just because
No occasion at all. Arguably the best one.
Built to ask for less
The parts we deliberately did not build
A photo app that gets to be nosy is a choice. These are the three places we made the opposite one.
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No account to open a gift
The person you send a puzzle to never makes an account, never gives an email address and never installs anything. The link opens, the puzzle loads, they play. That is it.
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Contacts stay on your phone
Birthday reminders are opt-in, and when you turn them on PuzzPic reads birthdays from your contacts on the device only. Your contacts are never uploaded to us, and the reminder itself is a local notification — the name in it never leaves the phone.
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Your note is not a post
Your note is never uploaded with the puzzle and never stored on your profile or on the puzzle itself — it rides inside the link you send, and their browser draws it when the last tile lands. It does travel inside the web address, the way anything in a link does, so our server sees it in the request when the link is opened. We do not log it, and it is not saved anywhere afterwards. Treat it as private to whoever holds the link, not as a secret from us.
The photo is a separate decision, and the default is public: a new puzzle goes to the feed. If this one is only for them, switch on Make private (link only) in the gift sheet before you create the link. That is what keeps it out of the feed. It still sits on your own profile, marked link-only, and the link itself works exactly the same — no app and no account at the other end.
The specifics live in the Privacy Policy. You can delete your account and everything in it from inside the app at any time: Settings → Delete account.
In the app
And when you are not gifting
Gifting is the reason most people arrive. The rest of PuzzPic is what keeps the photos coming.
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Two sizes, two mechanics
3×3 to warm up, 4×4 when you mean it. Free swap lets any two tiles trade places; slide gives you one empty square and makes you work for it. Every puzzle is timed.
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A feed worth scrolling
Post a puzzle publicly and other people solve your photo. Heart the ones you like, follow the people who keep making good ones, and keep your own on your profile.
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A widget that will not spoil it
The home-screen widget shows the newest gift somebody sent you — as a scrambled, blurred tile. It tells you something is waiting without ever showing you the photo.
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Birthday nudges
Turn them on and PuzzPic quietly reminds you before a birthday, with the maker already open. Off by default, and every birthday it reads stays on your phone.
Download
Get PuzzPic
Free to download and free to use. Ads pay for it; a single in-app purchase removes them for good. There is no subscription.
App Store
Live now. Make puzzles, send gifts, post to the feed, add the widget.
Download on the App StoreGoogle Play
Built and in testing, not published yet. When the listing goes live it will be linked from this page — nothing to click here until then.
Coming soon
Already been sent a puzzle? You do not need any of this. Just open the link — it solves in your browser.
Support
Something wrong? Write to a person.
There is no ticket system and no bot. Mail goes to the same place the in-app Contact us button sends it.
Help, bugs, anything
Email puzzpic@outlook.com and we will get back to you. Telling us your device and iOS version makes it faster.
Delete your account
You can do it yourself, in the app, without asking us: Settings → Delete account. It removes your account and its data. If you would rather we did it, email the address above and say so.